It looks like the folks on the Twitter API team have built their own URL shortener and will soon wrap all URLs to protect against fishing and collect stats: Additionally, as we mentioned at our Chirp developer conference in April, if you want to share a link through Twitter, there currently isn’t a way to [...]
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Pivotal Tracker gets better with Github, Get Satisfaction, and more!
Pivotal Tracker does one thing: It Rocks. Last year when Morgan introduced me to this agile project management system, I was blown away. It’s a testament to the philosophy of “Do one single thing, and do it really freakin’ well.” Now, they’ve gotten better with the release of version 3 of their API: This Pivotal [...]
Twitter adds delegation to API via “contributors”
Over the past week, I’ve been building a somewhat comical, if complex, application in Rails. It’s a “contextual game” that’s still a bit secret (only because it’s still in very early development and pretty much always borked.) Today, while exploring the Twitter API and building out a more complex user model, I found an interesting [...]
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